vulnerability

Amazon Linux 2023: CVE-2025-37914: Important priority package update for kernel6.12

Severity
7
CVSS
(AV:L/AC:M/Au:S/C:C/I:C/A:C)
Published
May 20, 2025
Added
Jun 11, 2025
Modified
Dec 4, 2025

Description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
net_sched: ets: Fix double list add in class with netem as child qdisc
As described in Gerrard's report [1], there are use cases where a netem
child qdisc will make the parent qdisc's enqueue callback reentrant.
In the case of ets, there won't be a UAF, but the code will add the same
classifier to the list twice, which will cause memory corruption.
In addition to checking for qlen being zero, this patch checks whether
the class was already added to the active_list (cl_is_active) before
doing the addition to cater for the reentrant case.
[1] https://lore.kernel.org/netdev/CAHcdcOm+03OD2j6R0=YHKqmy=VgJ8xEOKuP6c7mSgnp-TEJJbw@mail.gmail.com/
A use-after-free vulnerability was found in the Linux kernel’s `netem` qdisc. This issue occurs when it incorrectly manages duplicated packets in classful parent qdiscs. This leads to a corrupted internal state and eventual dereferencing of freed memory, resulting in unpredictable behavior, system instability, or a crash.

Solutions

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